EDUCATION FOR NURSES IN ISOLATION PRECAUTIONS: HANDS HYGIENE COMPLIANCE

Abstract

House sick is one of the places to provide health services to the community, especially
for people who are sick and have a great chance of being exposed and experiencing
infection. Infection is an interaction between a microorganism and a susceptible host that
occurs through a specific germ transmission code. One of the strategies in controlling
nosocomial infections is increasing the ability of health workers in universal precautions.
increasing case infections (new emerging, emerging & re-emerging diseases), epidemics
and extraordinary events make health service delivery facilities, one of which hospitals
are required to provide quality, accountable, transparent services to the community,
especially regarding patient safety guarantees.
The results of the audit by the PPI (Infection Prevention and Control) team at the Suaka
Insan Hospital in Banjarmasin in January-March 2021 regarding isolation precautions, in
this case, hand hygiene compliance on average 74%, which had reached the lowest rate
of 65% in January 2022. The impacts that could arise are the presence of nosocomial
infections where the incidence of nosocomial infections has been used as a benchmark
for the quality of hospital services. The operating license of a hospital can be revoked
due to the high incidence of nosocomial infections. Therefore, education and redissemination of information in the form of outreach and a review of the importance of
isolation precautions, especially hand hygiene for nurses, need to be carried out.
Method devotion Public This is by disseminating isolation precautions, SOP for hand
hygiene and the importance of compliance to increase patient safety goals, especially the
implementation of isolation precautions for all nurses at Suaka Insan Hospital,
Banjarmasin. Results The activities showed results, namely 1) conveying information on
isolation precautions; 2) disseminating hand hygiene SOP instruments for treatment and